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Requiring, deserving, or foreboding death by the halter. "What a hanging face!" Dryden.

ting speech; abusive language; virulent condemnation; reviling. The two parties, after exchanging a good deal of abuse, came to blows. Macaulay.

The act or process of acidifying, or changing into an acid.

Hanging at the cathead, ready to let go, as an anchor.

The act or process of changing into adipocere.

A sickness felt by aëronauts due to high speed of flights and rapidity in changing altitudes, combining some symptoms of mountain sickness and some of seasickness.

The act of becoming aërified, or of changing from a solid or liquid form into an aëriform state; the state of being aëriform.

utralizing and forming salts with acids, turning to brown several vegetable yellows, and changing reddened litmus to blue. Fixed alkalies, potash and soda. -- Vegetable alkalies. Same as Alkaloids. -- Volatile alkali, ammonia, so called in distinction from the fixed alkalies.

Changing color.

Altering; gradually changing. Bacon.

Gradually changing, or tending to change, a morbid state of the functions into one of health. Burton.

A proportion derived from another proportion by interchanging the means.

ublic bodies; Any alternation made or proposed to be made in a bill or motion by adding, changing, substituting, or omitting.

Resembling an amoeba; amoeba-shaped; changing in shape like an amoeba. Amoeboid movement, movement produced, as in the amoeba, by successive processes of prolongation and retraction.

The hangings or screen in front of the altar; an altar cloth; the frontal. Smollett.

Changing the direction in the spiral sequence of leaves on a stem.

Hanging; annexed; adjunct; concomitant; as, a seal appendant to a paper. As they have transmitted the benefit to us, it is but reasonable we should suffer the appendant calamity. Jer. Taylor.

Tapestry; a rich figured fabric; especially, a screen or hangings of heavy cloth with interwoven figures. Stateliest couches, with rich arras spread. Cowper. Behind the arras I'll convey myself. Shak.

e; one's mental attitude in respect to religion. The attitude of the country was rapidly changing. J. R. Green. To strike an attitude, to take an attitude for mere effect.

Just drawn out of the ground, and hanging perpendicularly; atrip; -- said of the anchor. Totten.